Stephen Hawking has warned that technology needs to be controlled in order to prevent it from destroying the human race.

The world-renowned physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, believes we need to establish a way of identifying threats quickly, before they have a chance to escalate.

“Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages,” he told The Times.

“It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason.”

He suggests that "some form of world government” could be ideal for the job, but would itself create more problems.

“But that might become a tyranny," he added. “All this may sound a bit doom-laden but I am an optimist. I think the human race will rise to meet these challenges.”

I'd love t'see Hawking take his wheelchair for a spin down the Grand Canyon trail. He's a big proponent of 'gravity' being all we need to create the universe & all we see around us...it'd be nice to observe the effect gravity would have on li'l Stephen as he rides the trail.

Weeeeeeeeeeeee.........................................!

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2 Timothy 1:7For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power & of love and of calm, a well-balanced mind, discipline and self-control.